I have heard knowing countreymen affirme that
rooke-wormes, which the crows and rookes doe devour at sowing time,
doe turne to chafers, which I think are our English locusts: and some
yeares wee have such fearfull armies of them that they devour all
manner of green things; and if the crowes did not destroy these
wormes, it would oftentimes happen. Parliaments are not infallible,
and some thinke they were out in this bill.
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Bees. Hampshire has the name for the best honey of England, and also
the worst; sc. the forest honey: but the south part of Wiltshire
having much the like turfe must afford as good, or little inferiour to
it. 'Tis pitty these profitable insects should loose their lives for
their industry.
"Flebat Arist?us, quod Apes cum stirpe necatas
Viderat incoeptos destituisse favos."-OVID. FAST. lib. i.
A plaster of honey effectually helpeth a bruise. (From Mr. Francis
Potter, B. D., of Kilmanton.) It seemes to be a rational medicine: for
honey is the extraction of the choicest medicinal flowers.
Mr. Butler of Basingstoke, in Hampshire, who wrote a booke of Bees,
had a daughter he called his honey-girle; to whom, when she was born,
he gave certain stocks of bees; the product of which when she came to be
married, was 400li. portion.
(From -- Boreman, of Kingston-upon- Thames, D.D.)
Mr. Harvey, at Newcastle, gott 80li. per annum by bees. (I thinke
Varro somewhere writes that in Spaine two brothers got almost as much
yearly by them.
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